Black Tape for a Blue Girl is an American dark wave band formed in 1986 by keyboardist/songwriter Sam Rosenthal, the founder of Projekt Records.
Their music has elements of dark wave, ethereal, ambient, neoclassical, and dark cabaret music.
Their 13th album, The Cleft Serpent, was released on October 1, 2021[2] on Projekt Records.
Photo credit: Lak Prasasvinitchai. In my dorm room back around the time of the release of The Rope
Now they return with 2024 mixes of two tracks off 1986’s debut The Rope.
The 2024 mixes are more distinct, you can hear all the parts clearly.
Oscar Herrera and Sam Rosenthal think these versions are an improvement, even if perhaps it loses some of the “charm” of the poorly recorded & mixed 1986 version (Rosenthal mixed the entire album in two hours back in the day. That’s unheard of!)
In May of 2023, Cherry Red Records asked Sam Rosenthal to contribute “Within these walls” to a 4CD Darkwave compilation.
He decided to offer them a new mix as well as the original mix, and they could pick which they preferred.
Rosenthal was motivated to try the new mix because he wanted to dive into the original 1986 Fostex cassette 4-track master to see what he could do with it.
This was an experiment towards the idea of creating a new mix of the entire The Rope album for the 40th anniversary in 2026.
Here’s the collection:
No Songs Tomorrow – Darkwave, Ethereal Rock And Coldwave 1981-1990 • 4CD Box Set. PreOrder in the USA from Projekt’s website or worldwide from Cherry Red Records.
Ward of Cause is a project of Irini Tiniakou and Konstantinos Londos ,whose poem “Bipolar” was the starting point for the creation of the concept album Antinomy.
The album was first released on December 16,2016 as a compact disc and digitally in March 2020.
Tiniakou graduated from the Department of Music Studies of the University of Athens and holds a diploma in piano and advanced theories.
She studied composition at the Richard Strauss Konservatorium in Munich as a scholarship holder of the Greek state scholarship foundation.
She has received 2nd prize in the pan-Hellenic piano competition of Youth Orchestra Choir (1993) and composition prizes from the Deutsches Museum in Munich (2003) and at the Contemporary Music Workshops (Athens, 2005).
As a musicologist she has worked with the Institute of Denmark (“Helios” festival, Technopolis 1999).
She has made transcriptions and orchestrations for works that have been performed by the string ensemble of the GreekNational Opera, the Municipal Regional Theatre of the city of Lamia, the Patras Orchestra, the Academy of Music and Theater of Munich.
As a pianist, he has collaborated with various musical groups in concerts and in the discography («Χάνομαι γιατι ρεμβάζω», “Mandigo”, «Άβατον», “einshoch6”) as well as with Thanos Anestopoulos in his last 2 appearances («Από τις ρίζες ως τα άνθη του Καλού», “Pallas” theater and Lazarist Monastery, 2016).
In the theater she has participated as a pianist in the performance “The Stranger” directed by M. Yementzakis (New Hellenic Theater, 2008), in the performance “Insenso” directed by M. Marmarinos ((Athens Festival, July 2012), in the theatrical repertoire Crime and Punishment: The noir side of the great Russians directed by G.Laspia (“Angelon Vima” theater 2015), in the play No one cured by D.Kamarotou and A.Moutousis (“Thision” theater, 2011).
photo by Achilleas Gatsopoulos
She has been a member of the group “Tsirichantsoules” since 2012 as well as Tsiri Band, with which, in addition to concerts, they have participated in the group’s performances and films.
She has also composed the music for the show “The Black Tsarina” (2014).
As a performer she has appeared in the performances “ODC…after Homer” (directed by E. Papakonstantinou, music by D. Kamarotos, Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Alexandria Library, 2002), “Kassandra-Gig” (directed by A. Moutousis and D. Kamarotos, Theater Lithographio – Patras, 2004 – and Benaki Museum – Athens 2005) and in the performance The Garden by V. Kokkas and G. Melanitis (Eugenideo Foundation, December 2005).
She works with musician Nikos Giousef, with whom they appear as a duo (piano-musical saw) and have performed in many concerts in Greece, Paris (Halle des Epinettes de Issy Les Moulineaux and Espace Culturel Saint-Sauver de Correntin Celton-2011) and Vienna (European Musical Saw Festival, June 2015).
Her works have been presented in concerts in Germany and Athens and she has also released the album Adagios From The Underground with the trio Nikos Giousef, Irene Tiniakou, George Katsanos.
Tiniakou released two albums and three singles with Incirrina. A dark electronic/minimal synth duo, that she formed with George Katsanos.
The video of Bipolar Bears was directed and edited by Nestor Theophilopoulos
Performer :Marianna Tsigarida
The music was composed and performed on an 8 channel recorder by Irini Tiniakou and was mixed and mastered by Tasos Fotiou.
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